This weekend I helped my neighbor and buddy Jason out with transporting and hanging his solo show at a local art gallery. Jason's studio is in one of the neater corners of town, a funky, re-purposed complex of manufacturing buildings formerly used by German electronic/electrical and consumer products giant AEG (similar in scope and product range to General Electric in the States-- they made everything from light bulbs to power tools to locomotives to nuclear reactors). While AEG is just a shell of its former self-- the company was effectively liquidated, but the name continues to be used by Electrolux for its consumer products-- the buildings remain, and are now used to house things like a local brewery, a car importer (old school American muscle cars a specialty), and a stage fabrication company.
Jason's building is exclusively rented out to artists (and a local magazine), and the offices are all now small studios, with some of the larger buildings in the complex being used for gallery shows. Being a fan of old repurposed buildings, I think this place is a gas, and it's kind of cool to walk around the empty floors and guess what used to be there.
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